Costume designs of an "Incroyable" and a "Cantinière" (Un Incroyable et une Cantinière)

Boutet de Monvel, Bernard

Fashion plate no. 144 from the 64th issue of the 1912-14 printing of the Parisian fashion magazine, Journal des Dames et des Modes. Copper plate engraving and pochoir (stencil) on paper. Costume designs for an "Incroyable" and a "Cantinière". Interior setting of a fancy dress ball, multiple figures in costume in the background. Signed BMB lower right corner. Incroyable was a term used to describe fashionable young men in Paris in the 1790s, known for wearing tight clothing with loud stripes and large lapels. A cantinière or vivandière was a woman attached to a military regiment as canteen (cafeteria) keepers. They were official auxiliary personal and usually wore versions of their regiment's uniform.